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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business education and the growing appeal of "scientific" approaches to decision-making and management. We also show that these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
well. Morrell: Part of your upcoming plans include a return to the States. What are you looking forward to about your return to the States? And similarly, what are you dreading? Tapon: I'm looking forward to consistent utilities. In other... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Simultaneously Publication:Long Range Planning (in press) Abstract As our world becomes more global, fast paced, and hypercompetitive, competitive advantage may increasingly depend on success in managing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
develop strategies for managing their own emotions, as well as those of the people on the receiving end, in order to facilitate successful task performance. Watching others, role-playing with a colleague, doing a dry-run in front of a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
candidates? Who should the board select for their shortlist of final candidates? In addition to exploring the history of Cisco, its current market position, and profiles of potential candidates, the case provides an overview of different types of View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand now what sorts of missions it may be required to perform in 10, 20, or 30 years and what assets and infrastructure it will need to carry them out. Put... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
You're a successful senior executive with 20, 25 years of experience under your belt. You've made your mark and stand just 1 or 2 rungs from the position of CEO. Now what? As faculty chair of Harvard Business School's Advanced Management... View Details
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will lessen the likelihood of a View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
a lower temperature. It’ll probably be a lot sweeter Julia: After tea, we move on to hay straws a product pitched as an environmentally friendly replacement for the restaurant’s compostable plastic straws. They’re introduced by Olivia Kjorlien, Clover’s food View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success and is the right fit... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
results will be affected by (a) when the inspection occurs within an inspector’s daily schedule and (b) the inspection outcomes of the inspector’s prior inspected establishment. Analyzing thousands of food safety inspections, we find that inspectors cite fewer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
masculinity is also pursued in other work settings. Research has documented how mainstream organizations conflate stereotypical masculine traits with effective performance in white-collar jobs, such as manager, scientist, and lawyer: View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609039 Miles Davis: Kind of Blue Harvard Business School Case 609-050 Examines how successful companies can "jump to the next S-curve" through an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
for a larger screen, more storage, and other improvements over the Kindle 2, which sells for $299). “I’m 100 percent committed to making this deal close and making it a successful deal,” Wilcox told the Boston Globe in a June 13 article... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow draws on hours of in-depth interviews with Grove, other key Intel employees, and numerous high-technology entrepreneurs to craft a revealing, instructive portrait of a man and the company he built into one of Silicon Valley’s biggest... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
breakfast, so the daily 8 a.m. staff meeting had been canceled, and Lhota was planning on catching up on some paperwork. He sat in the quiet of his first-floor office, whose tall, west-facing windows looked out on the morning's golden... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing in a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
deeply interests me in this space. But let’s talk about pricing. Snigdha, the price point you chose was about $3.99 a month, correct? SS: Yes, if you’re on the annual plan it’s a little less than $1 a week. BA: And Michael, yours is $5.99... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details